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CHARiTY OF THE MONTH PROGRAM

Each month, TEAM EFA designates one animal charity as our Charity of the Month.

All EFA Charities of the Month is the charity of choice of at least one EFA member.

EFA members who choose to donate a portion of their product sales to the EFA Charity of the Month, please tag those listings with our cotm tag.

If after the month is done & your products are still tagged with the cotm tag then those will go to benefit next month's cotm. If you wish to donate a percentage to another charity, including a -previous- cotm, please remove 'cotm' from your tag.

Using these tags helps to identify your pledge and makes it easier for shoppers & Treasury makers to locate your cotm products.

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Almost exactly a year ago a humane officer caused national outrage when he shot and killed five defenseless kittens in front of children. Last week, the same officer trapped a baby raccoon and shot her too, again in front of children. Now animal advocates are calling for both him and his supervisor to be immediately relieved of their duties over their obvious inability to humanely do their jobs.

Please send a letter to North Ridgeville's mayor and city council asking that both of these individuals be removed from their positions.

In May red wolves won a victory when a federal court stopped coyote hunting in areas where they live over concerns that wolves would be mistakenly killed, but wolf supporters are still pushing for more to be done to support recovery efforts to help ensure their survival.

Please send a letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service telling the agency you support wolf recovery efforts in North Carolina.

While lawmakers in Congress have supported legislation with language that will block funding for USDA inspections of horse slaughter facilities, if the language is removed it could mean slaughter plants could reopen in the U.S. for the first time since 2007.

Please send a message to your representative telling them not to support any amendments that would allow horse slaughter.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Shrine Circus wants to know what people's favorite circus acts are and is taking a poll to find out. The circus has been cited on numerous occasions for animal welfare violations so this is a perfect opportunity to let the circus know popular acts don't need to involve animals.

Yet another undercover investigation showing cruelty to baby turkeys at a Butterball facility in North Carolina made headlines last week. Unfortunately, instead of holding the company accountable for previous acts of cruelty, lawmakers introduced legislation that would criminalize whistleblowers.

Dow Chemical Company wants to make a new herbicide that will combine chemical found in Roundup (which is already causing problems) with a chemical component of Agent Orange… which environmentalists believe will be harmful to native plants, crops and the species who rely on them... in addition to us, of course.

Thursday, June 05, 2014

After years battling for his freedom and legal victories won on his behalf, efforts to have him moved to a sanctuary could be undone by a single bill that would create a loophole allowing Tony's owner to keep him in inappropriate conditions at a truck stop in Louisiana.

Responsibletravel.com and the World Cetacean Alliance have partnered to urge the travel industry to stop supporting whale and dolphin shows, arguing that keeping these animals in captivity for entertainment is morally unacceptable.

Packy, at age 52, is the oldest elephant living in a U.S. zoo. He suffers from health issues as a result of his captivity and his advocates have been fighting to have him, and the zoos other elephants, moved to a sanctuary.

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Etsy for Animals (EFA) aka Artists Helping Animals, is a team of independent artists, craftspeople, vintage sellers and craft suppliers on Etsy.com who are dedicated to providing charitable relief to animals by donating a portion of the profits from their shops to an animal charity of their choosing, and/or to EFA's featured Charity of the Month.